Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
JERRY GARCIAThe great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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